[Tips] IR Remote - Using Cheap USB PC Remote with Rune

[rern]

[den_hr]

THX for useful info...
I've used that same USB remote in one of my earlier builds, and also on PC-based "thin client" MPD servers (Puppy Linux)....

Also, are you saying that that particular ebay USB remote can be *modified" using JP1 Remote software (i.e. key functions changed/modified on the remote itself)?
That would be a great help, since I still have several of those, and don't use them because of the pesky "NumLock" key, which changes the remote behavior, and is easy to accidentally press (and suddenly the remote doesn't work any more....).

[rern]

[MarmiteSandwich]

Brilliant! I was just about to post a question about this very device when I found this post. Now I can pause the Pi.

After some faffing about with PuTTY and with reference to http://ss64.com/bash/ to learn some console commands, and a bit of hacking with the vi editor in particular, I managed to find the /root/.xbindkeysrc file and insert these statements. Since this device works without these hacks in Windows, out of the box, as do other "standard" USB IR remotes, I do wonder why they (or similar keypresses) aren't built into the distro or Rune. Maybe I'll never really get Linux.

Anyway, thanks for passing on the info!
Regards,
Marmite

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[hondagx35]

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